The Surviving Moat

For the last two decades, the software industry operated on a fundamental truth: Code is expensive. Building a robust, enterprise-grade SaaS product required armies of engineers, millions of dollars in venture capital, and years of R&D. If you managed to build a complex solution, the complexity was your defense. It was a “moat” built on the sheer difficulty of replication. That era is over. We are witnessing a structural revolution in the cost of software production....

January 4, 2026 · 5 min · Pradithya Aria Pura